{"id":26963,"date":"2010-01-24T09:24:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T16:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=26963"},"modified":"2010-01-24T09:24:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T16:24:03","slug":"tour-winner-contador-still-the-best-says-bruyneel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=26963","title":{"rendered":"Tour winner Contador still the best, says Bruyneel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lance Armstrong and his RadioShack team will find it hard to dethrone Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, team manager Johan Bruyneel said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bruyneel, the man behind Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s seven Tour titles, left Contador\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Astana team during the close season to join former Astana rider Armstrong at RadioShack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Asked at the Tour Down Under whether he knew how to beat Spaniard Contador in this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s race, Belgian Bruyneel told Reuters &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=reu-bruyneel&amp;prov=reuters&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Armstrong and his RadioShack team will find it hard to dethrone Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, team manager Johan Bruyneel said on Sunday. Bruyneel, the man behind Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s seven Tour titles, left Contador\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Astana team during the close season to join former Astana rider Armstrong at RadioShack. Asked at the Tour Down Under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26964,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}